Ward Family Papers 1872-1964 1900-1940

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Ward Family Papers 1872-1964 1900-1940

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Orchard Lake, Michigan, family, with various business interests, including lumbering and land transactions (in Michigan, California, West Virginia, and British Columbia), and also active in the development of the Orchard Lake area, especially from the 1920s to the 1940s; Correspondence files of individual family members, subject files detailing family interests and activities, business and legal records, maps, blueprints, and photographs.

29.2 linear ft., 1 oversize volume, and 8 oversize folders

eng,

Bentley Historical Library

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David Ward, one of Michigan's noted lumber barons, was born in Keene, New York, in 1822. He and his parents and nine brothers and sisters moved to Newport, Michigan, in 1836. Nathan Ward, David's father, was a farmer and surveyor, who taught David the art of surveying and surviving in the woods of Michigan. David's frequent trips with his father into the woods, however, caused him to suffer from bronchitis and while recuperating from a bout in 1840 he began to study medicine. Over t...

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